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Biography

Name: Leslie A(aron) Fiedler
Variant Name: Leslie A. Fiedler, Leslie Aaron Fiedler
Birth Date: March 8, 1917
Death Date: January 29, 2003
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Jewish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Leslie A(aron) Fiedler
4,179 words, approx. 14 pages
Best known for his studies of the American novel, Leslie A. Fiedler brings a distinctive mixture of psychological, political, and sociological concerns to bear on the description and analysis of American culture. Fiedler persistently locates himself...
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Biography of Leslie A(aron) Fiedler
2,051 words, approx. 7 pages
The roster of "great critics and historians of American literature in this century," the New York Times Book Review once announced, "would have to include Leslie [Aaron] Fiedler, by far the least academic, [and] the most voluble, diverse, uneven,...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Leslie Fiedler Information
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Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917–January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature....


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Review of Contemporary Fiction
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
07/01/2000: 308 words, approx. 1 pages
Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin, eds. Leslie Fiedler and American Culture. Univ of Delaware Press, 1999. 199 pp. $36.50. This is a welcome Festschrift in honor of Leslie Fiedler, long a lightning rod in the study of American culture and literature. After...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Leslie Fiedler, literary critic, at 85
01/31/2003: 675 words, approx. 2 pages
00-00-0000 Leslie Fiedler, literary critic, at 85 -- Provocative American voice By BEN DOBBIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 01-31-2003, Friday Section: LOCAL Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Biographical: LESLIE FIEDLER Leslie Fiedler, an author and literary critic...
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The New York Observer
Sideways, Ray, The Incredibles \'c9. The Best and Worst Movies of 2004
1/9/2005: 2,261 words, approx. 8 pages
As far as I can determine, 2004 seems to be neither the best nor the worst year for movies, at least as far as the proportion of good (low, as always) to bad (high, as always) is concerned. Of course, the technology keeps changing-often to...
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The New York Observer
In the Minority on Mountain: No Tears Shed for Love Story
12/18/2005: 2,430 words, approx. 8 pages
By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media outlets, for the supposed shock of two men in...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Seymour Krim
2,261 words, approx. 8 pages
Aggressive, cocksure, intellectually sadistic, dogmatic, gossipy, and more keenly involved with contemporary America than probably any of his critical peers, Professor Leslie Fiedler … has written [Waiting for the End], a justly bitter book that withholds neither his derisive intelligence nor his superior independence. Misleadingly subtitled "a new work on the crisis in American culture, race and sex," and sub-subtitled "a portrait of 20th-century American literature and its writ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Michelson
2,033 words, approx. 7 pages
Leslie Fiedler is one of those literary personalities who has the effect of polarizing his readers. Already his new study of American Western mythology [The Return of the Vanishing American] has agitated the spleen of Kenneth Rexroth, who resents a New York Jew's tampering with the Western myth [see excerpt above]. Whether such romantic antagonism is just (Fiedler lived for many years in Missoula, Montana) isn't important, but it does present the kind of difficulty such a study as this must fa...
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Critical Essay by Charles Molesworth
1,795 words, approx. 6 pages
[The Stranger in Shakespeare] can be read in two quite distinct ways. The book may be regarded as epiphenomenal, an outgrowth of his previous theories, assumptions and fixations about American literature, extended back into the Elizabethan past. In other words, it might serve as little more than a rag with which to wipe the ankles of our greatest literary monument. On the other hand, it could be read as the author's most important critical statement, a bold book about the boldest of artists, in which...
 


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